First, I needed to get in the right mindset for the project. So, I flew to Maryland and went sailing

Writing about the restoration, hotels in london renovation and redemption of an antique (1700s) home in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire. Funny observations about raising a young family in an old house. Anecdotes about the transition from suburban life in the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis to small town life in New England.
When you are living in an old house, the norm is for projects to take longer, cost more, and generally become way more involved than you anticipated. We've had plenty of that here at TOPH, but I must say there is one that is d-r-a-g-g-i-n-g. My poor son's room is still not finished.
Last year, I jumped right in on my daughter's room . The wallpaper was a willing participant in the removal process and, aside from the month of humidity we managed hotels in london to bring with us from Annapolis, which made paint drying a bit of an issue, her room was done in a reasonable period of time. My son's room was slated for this past Summer. Specifically, I was going to get it done with all of my free time when they were at day camp for four weeks. Yea, right.
First, I needed to get in the right mindset for the project. So, I flew to Maryland and went sailing for a long weekend (Thank you, L'Outrage peeps!), which turned into a week due to last minute while-I'm-here business meeting and the monster of all flight delays which resulted in driving all the way home in a shared hotels in london rental car (shades of John Candy and his polka band in Home Alone)...
I went to Lowe's to buy a steamer and try that, but instead was led astray by a know-it-all paint-counter-chick at Lowe's. She offered up a "trick" her father used to swear by. He swore about it all right. I painted over one entire wall of already-permanently-adhered wallpaper with KILZ on the theory that it would somehow bond with the paper and react with paste and basically fall off the walls. hotels in london Not. I ended up with still-permanently-adhered wallpaper, which was then impermeable to liquid, which, according to my husband (aka The Wallpaper Whisperer), was the trick all along.
He took pity on me one afternoon hotels in london and stripped the other three walls of the room with hot water and a dull putty knife. Which, of course, left me with "that" wall. Eight days later, with help from my mom, "that wall" was finally clear of bits of paper along with several chunks of the plaster wall that decided to go for the ride.
Midway through, I was absolutely convinced I could make painted lath look really good in a rustic kind of way. Hubby was morally opposed hotels in london to that little bit of avoidance-DIY hotels in london decorating nonsense. (I still think I could have made that look good.)
Anyway, enough about the wallpaper. It's over, along with six good-sized tubs of DAP Fast and Final spackle-product (like cheese hotels in london product?) That stuff is like "Wall Meringue" -- super light and perfect for filling hotels in london in the spaces in crusty, crumbly hotels in london surfaces that won't hold up to much sanding. hotels in london So, although the texture of my son's walls, like his sister's, hotels in london is akin to a Mexican Mission, they are free of cracks and holes. Draft dodging achieved!